Archive - Software Design: Tidy First?

Starving Genies

What 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract says about throttling

Apr 3 • Kent Beck

Genie Sessions: TCR Skill

A recording from Kent Beck's live video

Apr 1 • Kent Beck

50:51

March 2026

Mar 31 • Kent Beck

Why Your Progress Is About The Same As Everyone Else's

But you aren't looking at every- everyone.

Mar 26 • Kent Beck

Forest Thinning

An incentives approach

Mar 20 • Kent Beck

A few questions about what you're working on...

I write about what I find interesting.

Mar 4 • Kent Beck

Genie: Death of the Iron Triangle?

Faster/cheaper/sooner & less?

Mar 2 • Kent Beck

February 2026

Don't Accomplish Everything

P50 goals, the shift to exploration, & managing in spite of volatility

Feb 23 • Kent Beck

Earn *And* Learn

What Game Are We Playing?

Feb 18 • Kent Beck

Genie Session: Codex for Mac/GPUSortedMap

A recording from Kent Beck's live video

Feb 13 • Kent Beck

48:26

Generation Gap or Just Rude?

This weekend I had the first experience talking to someone of a younger generation where I felt completely lost.

Feb 10 • Kent Beck

Labor Replacement is a Poison Pill

I just published publicly that when thinking about the economic value of AI, “replace human labor” is a narrow-minded perspective.

Feb 7 • Kent Beck

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